What is "drawling"

Usage examples of "drawling".

She would never forget the leap of her heart as she heard it, as if for the first time, drawling, resonant, musical.

He admired the drawling elegance of the wealthy rice and cotton planters, who rode into Savannah from their moss-hung kingdoms, mounted on thoroughbred horses and followed by the car­riages of their equally elegant ladies and the wagons of their slaves.

Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.

Accustomed to the brisk voices of upland Georgia, the drawling flat voices of the low country seemed affected to her.

She thought of Ashley wounded, dying in a far-off Yankee prison, with no blankets over him, with no one who loved him to hold his hand, and she was filled with hate for the well-fed man who sat beside her, jeers just beneath the surface of his drawling voice.

The soft drawling voices quickened with an old excitement as they talked in the quiet darkness — infantry­man, cavalryman, cannoneer, evoking memories of the days when life was ever at high tide, recalling the fierce heat of their midsummer in this forlorn sunset of their winter.

Even the cynical coolness of the war days, the drunken madness that drove him the night he carried her up the stairs, his hard fingers bruising her body, or the barbed drawling words that she now real­ized had covered a bitter love.

Robinton said, drawling as he pointed an accusing finger at the Lord Warder.

It pulled her to her feet and across toward her open door before she actually registered anything familiar about the low drawling voice.

Same hat, same shirt, same ruggedly appealing face and lazy drawling voice.

His slightly drawling voice fascinated her--his audacious, often witty way of putting things, and the irrepressible bubble of laughter that would keep breaking from him.

Nay, the common speech of the people showed change: in place of the old midland vernacular, irregular but clean, and not unwholesomely drawling, a jerky dialect of coined metaphors began to be heard, held together by GUNNAS and GOTTAS and much fostered by the public journals.

Then he turned around, smiled faintly, said: " 'Lo, people," in a gentle, rather drawling voice and went out of the room through an inner door.